In the novel Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov employs long ongoing rants and detailed descriptions in order to convey the lies spun by Kinbote’s notes, warping the viewers' understanding of the story. Ultimately illustrating grief can fully change one’s perspective and ruin one’s life.

First Nabokov uses long never-ending rants to accentuate Kinbote’s excessive falsehoods. For example, within the first few pages of Kinbotes’ notes it quickly devolves into a rant about going to Shadean’s house and describing their encounters, this rant takes up more than half the first few pages and introduces his tendency to rant, and then contradict himself. Because Nabokov wants Kinbotes lying to be obvious he uses long rants to show him contradicting himself. Consequently Kinbote’s tendency to lie is introduced early on in relation to Shadean’s death. Due to this the overarching theme of grief taking a toll on an individual's psyche is highlighted early on. Nabokov’s use of never ending rants to represent Kinbote’s lying is used throughout the book. Secondly the way kinbote goes about his rants changes throughout the book at first the ranting was somewhat minimal and didn’t greatly affect the way the story as much, but as time goes on the long winded and somewhat unwarranted rants begins to shift and change the book making the book seem completely different from what it once was. Because Nabokov wants the book to seem almost ethereal he writes Kinbote as a long winded ranter. Since his rants extend for pages and involve him processing the death of Shadean his moves to shape the story. Thus the grief one has for another can change the views they hold on the world. 

Nabokov not only utilizes long rants to highlight Kinbote's ranting, he also uses long detailed descriptions as well. Nabokov’s use of descriptions starts pretty early in Kinbote’s section. Nabokov starts using the deep and rich descriptions almost as soon as Kinbote’s section begins, having him write in great detail about Shadean's house and the land surrounding it painting an in-depth and intricate picture of the abode of the dead author. Because Nabokov wants to accentuate the made up memories Kinbote has of Shadean's home, he has him write in great detail. Consequently, the relationship the two have is greatly exaggerated  and not fully understood. Due to this the grief held shines through, through the warping of the world around them. Nabokov’s use of long descriptions for lying continues. Nabokov then has Kinbote go on multiple long winded descriptions of his home country, going into great detail on a country that doesn't even exist, detailing his home, the lands around it, and the great ruler of the land. Because Nabokov wants to further the understanding that kinbote is a liar he has him go into detailed descriptions that don’t fully make sense. Since his ranting is ongoing and neverending his mental health shines through on how his reaction to his favorite author's death shines through. Thus the common theme of grief changing one's perspective is shown. 

Having a character deceive an audience in a book is a common theme and is especially common in Pale fire, and is utilized throughout the book to purposely warp and change the book. The book's changes are heavily highlighted through the fictional proofreader's work, further changing the book's story and the understanding of that story. Overall the grief one has for another can greatly change the view one has on the world around them.

In the novel Lolita,  Vladimir Nabokov uses the scenes of Humbert Humbert assaulting Dolorese  to subtly begin to reveal H.H’s false narrative. Ultimately illustrating many people suffer from abuse daily behind closed doors.

Vladimir Nabokov begins with using H.H’s violence against Dolores to hint at H.H’s lying.

Vladimir’s use of violence begins a quarter way through the book. H.H takes Dolores away from her home and any of her family and takes her to a hotel before drugging her to force her into a comatose-like state so he could assault her, and although this fails this acts as the starting point for H.H’s violent assault against Dolores. Because Vladimir Nabokov wants to introduce the idea that H.H is telling a very biased side of the story he begins with having H.H explain away his first assault. Consequently this helps guide the narrative into shattering slightly and allowing for the true meaning of the story underneath to slowly begin to get revealed.

Vladimir continues using H.H’s violence against Dolores to push the narrative forward.

Nabokov’s writing of H.H’s drugging and assault of dolores continues with H.H being talked to by a random man in the garden of the hotel where he calls out H.H for taking Dolores to the hotel to assault her, after being called out he ran off to the hotel room and implies that the random man is in the wrong while he is in the right for what he’s doing to Dolores. Because Vladimir wants to continue to use H.H violence against Dolores to convey H.H’s unreliable narration he uses the interaction between H.H and the random man. Consequently this gives a better understanding of the need for the violence against Dolores to help. Thus, the hidden abuse many suffer everyday is better understood.

Nabokov moves from using H.H’s initial violence against Dolores to using his final act of violence to hint at the true narrative. Nabokov’s  final  use of violence against Dolores to push the narrative forward he has H.H enact his final part of violence against Dolores during an argument causing her to run away before getting hurt and hospitalized and eventually after that finally be able to escape from the capture of Humbert Humbert and finally cracking the false narrative H.H built around the abuse of Dolores. Because Vladimir wants to further describe the violence Dolores faces he has one final assault that acts as the breaking point causing her to flee. Consequently this further builds into the narrative H.H constructed to continue to break around him. Vladimir continues using H.H’s violence against Dolorese to continue to push the story forward. Nabokov further uses the final assault Dolores faces from H.H and the subsequent injury, hospitalization, and escape from H.H to continue to shape the future and past writing with the change in context for the entire novel. Because Nabokov wants to describe the abuse Dolores faces he uses the final assault against Dolores as the final breaking point for her to escape the abuse. Consequently, the final pieces of the false narrative H.H made to try and deceive the audience are broken leaving the story he once told be in an entirely new light. Thus the abuse that has been kept hidden comes to light again.

In the novel Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov uses the repeated violence against Dolores to further drive the narrative and continue the story. This also helps to reveal that Humbert Humbert often lies and falsifies the narrative he pushes in order to push the ideas that he is blindly following. Ultimately illustrating the strenuous abuse so many face behind closed doors.